Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-21
ATHLETICS AT THE ARMORY.

ATHLETICS AT THE ARMORX.
 A Very Successful and Spirited Affair
 The Tournament Given by Company
 K of WallIngfOrd and Company B
 22d New York.
 The military and athletic entertainment given at the armory on Meadow street Satur- day evening by Company K, Second regiment 0. N. G., and Company B, Twenty-second regiment N. G. S. N. Y., drew large audience. Seats were arranged on the sides of the armory and a large number of chairs were placed in the galleries and nearly every seat was occupied, while many persons were standing. Four car loads of Columbia col lege students, Company men and members of different athletic associations in New York city and vicinity arrived here on train from New York early in the evening.
 Soon after supper Lieutenant LaBarnes, in command of Company K, headed by the Second regiment band, marched to the New Haven House, where the visitors had assem- bled and escorted them to the armory. Governor Lounsbury and Secretary of State Hubbard occupied seats in the gallery near the front entrance to the armory.
 The manager was Lieutenant Wm. N. Ba- vier. Company B, and the master of ceremo- l. A. w. G. Hegeman of the same association was the official handicapper. There was long list of committees and officers composer in great measure of Company $ men, who came up nearly ffty strong under Captaln Wm. V. King. The first event on the pIo- gramme was 50 yard run dlagonally across She hall and in which there were 22 entries. The contestants ran in groups Of four or less ". F. Hen1y of New York won the first set, time 2-3 seconds. Wm. H. Ludington of Yale won the second in 6 Is and w. Il. Aldridge of Columbia the third in 2-5 sec onds. The first and second men in these sets were allowed to enter the final, which was won by J. F. McGuire of Yale college in 545 The second man was Henry of New York. In the half-mile 1dn, handicap, 15 young athletes scampered around the track and the race was finally won by H. Y. Smith of the Olympic Athletic association was sec- ond. c. M. Smith, Yale 'S3, now member of the New York Athletic association, was at the scratch in this race. This was the first victory for Columbia and the crowd of students that came up from New York made much noise about 1t. The one mile walk was an interesting affair, lnas- much as E. D. Lange of Columbia college, one of the best amateur walkers in the country was one of the starters. He started at the scratch and easily won in 6:57. J. J. Finn of the Nassau Athletic association was second. Hercules A. B. Coxe of Yale college and nine other athletes contested in the put ting the 16 pound shot contest. Mir. Coxe put it 40 feet and inches, but as he had to give handicap of feet to A. G. Hunt, also of Yale, who put it 34 feet 1-2 inches; the latter of course was the winner.
 There were 20 entries in the E1G yard run. The first heat was taken by A. L. Copeland of the Manhattan Athletic association, the second by Eugene Lentilhon of Yale college, and the final heat by Copeland in fifty nine seconds.
 Then came the first trisl pull in the tug-of- war between the Wallingford company and the New York boys. The former team was composed as follows: Lieutenant George H. Wilkinson, captain and anchor; Private Jo- seph Merchant, Mo- 5; Corporal s. J. Howe, No 4; Private Thomas Downey, No. 5; Fri vate Edward 0. Dunn, No. 2; Private Charles Backes, No. 1. They were a set ot strap ping fellows The New York team consist ed of the following athletes Private Frank Lent, captain, No, 5; Private $. c. Bedell, No: No B. pri1ats fIsss'' ". H. snssT Hsniey' No. 2; Corporal H. D. Tompkins, No: 1; Pri vate E. A. Barker, anchor. The first tug was a close bit of work. As soon as the pistol was fired at the start the Wallingford boys got about half an inch of rope at the drop l and held it until the three minutes was up, thus winning the first pull. Later in the evening, however, when the teams got at It again the New Workers commenced to show their muscle and grit and they dropped down to their work full of business They secured about ten inches of the rope this time and made the event tie SO far. On the last trial the New Workers pulled over four inches of their opponents side of the rope and won the event. Then there were great acclanatlons on the part of their admirers.
 The tug-of-war between the Yale and Co., Iumbia college teams was won by the latter, ! but they had to pull hard to win. The Yale l men were: L. c. Copley '87, anchor, l.. T. | Bissell '97, c. L. Le Sassier '8s, H. B. Fer | ris 'S7. |
 The one mile handicap run introduced two | good runners from this city, William liar | man of Yale and Guss Marshall of the Light | Guard. The former was given handicap of 70 yards and won in 4 minutes 45 sec- onds.
 The funniest event of the evening was the l obstacle race. Three young men lay down on the floor at the start, turned somersault ] when the word to go was given, and then had to crawl under netting 20 feet wide | and set just above the floor. AS soon as | they completed this they had to crawl through hoops suspended over the course, ! then run half the length of the armory and crawl through barrels suspended from beam, then through other barrels, when they ! next had to ascend steep toboggan slide. The contestants had to go twice around the course.
 The potato race was an interesting aHalf and was won by c. F. Lane of Go. K. E. D. Lange of Co., was the second best in this event.
 Although it was late in the evening when Captain Clarity marched the Ssrsfeld Guards | on to the floor, the large audience had not \ perceptibly decreased. The programme of the evening contained this reference to the Sars6elds: "The Sars6elds are noted the l country over as one of the best drilled com panies in the National Guard" The compa- ny marched finely and executed the manual by command, the famous silent manual without command and the bayonet exercise | with remarkable precision. As the difficult l movements were executed the company were | loudly applauded, which showed that tbe | audience appreciated the remarkable excel | lence of the drill.
 O. c. Lee, Shelf. 80, astonished the | audience and broke the record by kicking to the wonderful heighth of feet 78 inches.
 Captain Treat and Colonel Leavenworth | were present during the entire evening, giv- ing directions regarding the entertainment. | The music by the Second regiment band, | George Streit leader, was delightful, par | ticQlarly the s'Colonel Leavenworth March,"
 THE COURT RECORD. City Court - Criminal Side - Judge
 Demfng.
 March 19.-Thomas Fitzgerald, violating ordinance de hackman, bond called; Peter Flynn, resisting officer, nollsd.
 HIS TIME NEARLY OUT.